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Washington Parish Jail has been cited over 20 times by the fire department since 2020 for being overcrowded. Full occupancy is 144. There are 299 inmates.
operating an over-crowded jail. For the sheriff, it’s a tough. situation. After all, it’s not simply a matter of finding some rooms, or he could reserve a couple of suites at the nearest Hilton.
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The state jail commission cited Harris County for having 355 prisoners more than authorized in 19 cells in the basements of two criminal justice buildings on Monday, the latest setback in a ...
Lawmakers tour crowded Fulton jail, hear about need for resources. ... Only positive attitudes allowed in this area” reads a poster in 100 cell block of the Fulton County Jail.
The rapidly populating Arapahoe County has outgrown its outdated, too-small jail, built in 1986 to hold 386 inmates, Sheriff Tyler Brown said. The facility regularly holds upward of 1,200 people now.
In many cases defendants can't afford bail, so they are stuck in a jail cell that could be used to house someone else. About 10 percent of inmates currently at the Cook County Jail meet this criteria.
I mean, it's a difficult thing to ask the correctional officers to go into a cell block of 45 guys and try to break up something." The jail has also taken on structural damage over the past 30 years.